The first
beta for the next version of
JBoss' Weld is here. It has been approximately six months since JBoss released
Weld 1.0.1, which added support for running on Google AppEngine. The new beta for Weld 1.1 features about 60 bugfixes and new EJB 3.1 features.

Weld 1.1, the reference implementation of JSR-299: Contexts and Dependency Injection is based on the
CDI 1.0 API. Weld is being integrated into the JBoss Application Server, and version 1.1 should be available in the next release of JBoss AS 6.0. Until then you'll need to use a snapshot
build of JBoss AS. Weld is also used in GlassFish v3 and supports several servlet containers such as Tomcat and Jetty.

Here are some of the new features in Weld 1.1:

Weld has migrated to Google Guava from google-collections

New EJB 3.1 features displayed in the new Pastecode example

Improvements in error reporting

Better memory usage

Unsafe instantiators

A new proxy layer that doesn't suffer from the memory leaks in Javasssist

About 60 bugfixes

Weld 1.1 also has the ability to exclude classes from being scanned and then deployed as beans. This is achieved by configuring the beans.xml for the bean archive being deployed. beans.xml may be parsed outside of Weld.

Another way to use Weld is with Java SE. There is also strong support for Weld in the emerging Arquillian testing framework, which allows you to test in Weld SE, Tomcat, Jetty, JBoss AS, GlassFish, or a mocked out Java EE container.